Star Wars: Hidden Fates

Chapter 6: Mother and Daughter

 Leilani had been unconscious for several hours. When she woke up, she was on a comfy bed with warm blankets and a good pillow. "Is this what happens when you become part of the force? I like this." She was about to drift back to sleep when she felt a presence.

"Becoming part of the force does not feel like this." Thoro was sitting by her feet on the bed.

Leilani gasped and scrambled off the bed, kicking the blankets away. She tried to calm her heart which was racing fast. "There is no emotion, only peace. There is no emotion, only peace."

Thoro stood up with her gaze steady. "I am not going to kill you, yet. I want you to take a blood test."

Leilani's eyes narrowed with concern. "Am I to be a lab rat?"

"No, I want to see if you are my long-lost daughter. I have a hunch you are her. My child was a medium blue-skinned, brown-eyed, and dark blue hair hybrid. You don't come across those people every day."

"Whether the blood test is a match or not, you will never be my mother. My Master raised me for several years. I know she treated me better than you would have."

Thoro guided her to a room and pricked her finger. "Sith are not doing violent things all day. If we form relationships, it is only with close people like a dating partner, spouse, or children. Kindness and love are given to a select few."

"Ow." Leilani's eyes winced from being pricked. The thought of 'loving and kindness was given to a select few' seemed extremely selfish. Thoro was not leaving any impression on Leilani, Leilani knew she could never view Thoro as her mother, regardless of the test result.

Analyzing Blood Sample

Varkona City, Xalor Prime

Leilani Tylin

14 years 10 Months

Currently Alive

50% Match Juelo Tylin

50% Match Thoro Tylin

Results from Republic Archives

– Data encrypted by Republic Archives –

– Data only altered when death is confirmed –

Leilani filled the inside of her mouth with air, causing her cheeks to puff out a little. She was well aware that the Sith could not alter the Republic's record system. Nevertheless, she had doubts Thoro was her biological mother.

"You still don't accept the results?" Thoro inserted her blood sample she took in front of Leilani.

Analyzing Blood Sample

Giminalyuoandt, Hurkitine

Thoro Tylin – Maiden surname Dayburn

41 years old 3 months

Formerly married to Juelo Tylin

Currently Alive

Offspring: Leilani Tylin (50% blood test match)

Results delivered to the Republic Archives by the United Outerrim worlds 13 years ago

Leilani turned around to Thoro, sensing no deceit. The results were a perfect match, which she did not like. "Is it safe to assume your ultimatum is to convert me to the Dark Side?"

"I want nothing more than my daughter to join me. I never forgot the day your Master took you away from me." Thoro extended her robotic hand, covered with a black glove.

Leilani stared at her hand, with her mind racing through a thought. "Did my Master Trinity-Sky Bay do that to you?"

"If that is the name of the Jedi that took off with you, yes, she cut both of my hands off and I had to get metal replacements."

"Took off with me?" Leilani's eyes widened as her voice changed to a higher pitch. "I think you meant that she took me to save me. I am grateful she spared me from becoming evil like you. I am grateful you brought me into existence, however, my Master is more like a mother to me than you ever will."

Thoro's expression hardened. "You can have it your way." Her voice was colder than it was a moment ago.

Leilani was caught off guard by that response, leaving her vulnerable.

"If you die, your Master will move on. I know she embraces the code dearly when it comes to someone being dead. She has reached that age where she can accept it. Unlike her, I would avenge and forever mourn you as I have done all these years when we were separated."

"You're bluffing! That cannot be true." Leilani's emotional guard began to waver.

"If you continue to pursue the path of the Jedi, you will end up like her. Even if you are like those Jedi that defy the code and marry, you will eventually feel nearly neutral to death."

Anger was beginning to build up in Leilani. Thoro said nothing knowing that any word could make Leilani defy her out of spite.

"There is no emotion, only peace." Leilani quickly calmed herself. "In the end, the Sith will not prevail." She hoped to provoke Thoro into anger, to give herself a quick momentary distraction to escape.

Thoro remained unfazed. "I have studied psychology. I am well aware of emotional manipulation. I only submit to my anger when I desire. I do not allow others to provoke it."

She felt she had no other option than to kill Leilani. First, she wanted to entertain herself by using psychology to weaken Leilani. "Run, run all you want. At the end of the day, you are another worthless Padawan. Jedi Knights outnumber Padawans ten to one. You will never amount to anything with your Jedi ways. When you die, you are one less mouth to feed for the Jedi."

Leilani clenched her fists, fighting back tears. Her heart was pounding. "The Jedi care about every being. Y-you're lying."

Thoro smirked, her voice dripped with disdain. "You are weak and worthless. You are just another person for the Jedi council to send on their errands. Look at you, rejecting your own mother who carried and gave birth to you. You failed the Jedi by shutting out your heart to me, all because I am a Sith Lord."

Leilai's voice wavered, her resolve was weakening. Her mind raced with doubts. "Not true, I would not kill you. Killing you would make me like you." Leilani looked down.

"Bah. You know you are insignificant, yet you are casting doubt upon yourself. All your work and training as a Padawan learner are in vain. You have no role to play, you are a pawn."

Leilani's shoulders slumped as Thoro's words sunk in. She felt a cold wave of despair fall on her like a waterfall. "Worthless... insignificant... no purpose... nobody will miss me when I am gone... insignificant... worthless... no role in life... there is no way this is true and yet I feel sad." Leilani started crying. "In exchange for not becoming evil, I have to live with these facts."

Her self-esteem and self-worth were severely crushed. Thoro cracked her emotional state to cast doubt upon her role in the Jedi Order and life. She was giving in to hopelessness and despair.

Thoro saw her chance to strike Leilani down where she stood. Unfortunately, Leilani recollected herself enough to sense Thoro's move and used the force to quickly zip into an air vent and started crawling.

"Dammit! No Padawan has ever escaped from me! Soldiers! Find that Jedi!"